Kanagawa 12th district

Kanagawa 12th District
Kanagawa 12th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Kanagawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Kanagawa
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	410,480
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Tomoko Abe
Municipalities	Fujisawa and Kōza District

Kanagawa 12th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It includes the city of Fujisawa and Kōza District.

List of representatives

Election	Representative		Dates	Notes
1996	Ikuzo Sakurai	LDP	1996 – 2000
2000	Yoichiro Esaki	DPJ	2000 – 2002
		NCP	2002 - 2003
		LDP	2003
2003	Ikko Nakatsuka	DPJ	2003 – 2005
2005	Ikuzo Sakurai	LDP	2005 – 2009
2009	Ikko Nakatsuka	DPJ	2009 – 2012
2012	Tsuyoshi Hoshino	LDP	2012 – 2017
2014	Tsuyoshi Hoshino	LDP	2012 – 2017
2017	Tomoko Abe	CDP	2017–present	Incumbent
2021	Tomoko Abe	CDP	2017–present	Incumbent

Election Results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent)	95,013	42.43	0.77
	LDP	Tsuyoshi Hoshino (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	91,159	40.71	1.18
	Ishin	Masashi Mito	37,753	16.86	New
Registered electors			406,623
Turnout			223,925	56.14	4.46

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR)	86,550	43.20	New
	LDP	Tsuyoshi Hoshino (Incumbent) (elected by PR)	83,924	41.89	0.55
	Kibō	Teruo Hara	29,852	14.90	New
Registered electors			395,393
Turnout			200,326	51.68	1.62

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Tsuyoshi Hoshino (Incumbent)	83,327	42.44	8.38
	DPJ	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	82,612	42.08	19.91
	JCP	Kotaro Mimura	16,189	8.25	3.21
	PFG	Kazuhiko Amakasu	14,208	7.24	New
Registered electors			379,426
Turnout			196,336	53.30

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Tsuyoshi Hoshino	73,476	34.06	5.20
	TPJ	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	50,976	23.63	New
	DPJ	Ikko Nakatsuka (Incumbent)	47,834	22.17	23.71
	JRP	Kazuhiko Amakasu	32,590	15.11	New
	JCP	Tsuneo Numakami	10,871	5.04	0.37
Turnout

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Ikko Nakatsuka	110,532	45.88	13.19
	LDP	Ikuzo Sakurai (Incumbent)	69,524	28.86	18.06
	SDP	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	47,538	19.73	4.59
	JCP	Chikako Watanabe	11,240	4.67	0.59
	HRP	Shigeru Yamada	2,056	0.85	New
Turnout

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ikuzo Sakurai (Incumbent - PR)	108,898	46.92	8.59
	DPJ	Ikko Nakatsuka (Incumbent)	75,865	32.69	6.71
	SDP	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	35,133	15.14	1.13
	JCP	Tsuneo Numakami	12,211	5.26	0.60
Turnout

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Ikko Nakatsuka (Incumbent - PR)	75,826	39.40	11.30
	LDP	Ikuzo Sakurai (elected by PR)	73,767	38.33	12.01
	SDP	Tomoko Abe (Incumbent - PR) (reelected by PR)	26,954	14.01	4.78
	JCP	Midori Takamatsu	11,280	5.86	2.06
	Indep.	Kōichi Suzuki	4,617	2.40	New
Turnout

2000^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoichiro Esaki	54,237	28.10	New
	LDP	Ikuzo Sakurai (Incumbent)	50,814	26.32	4.34
	Indep.	Naotake Harada	36,414	18.86	New
	SDP	Tomoko Abe (elected by PR)	36,276	18.79	New
	JCP	Tsuneo Numakami	15,293	7.92	7.09
Turnout

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ikuzo Sakurai	51,360	30.66	New
	NFP	Yoichiro Esaki	50,511	30.15	New
	DPJ	Naotake Harada	40,523	24.19	New
	JCP	Shoichi Kuwabara	25,143	15.01	New
Turnout

References

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[7] "第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川12区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-09-24.

[8] "第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川12区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-09-24.

[9] "第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川12区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-09-24.

[10] "第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川12区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-09-24.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4